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Sunday Post: People

Posted on September 23, 2012 by | 30 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

Jakesprinter‘s Sunday Post theme this week is People.

Here are photos that I took on four different occasions in New York City over the past couple of years…

What do you think these people are doing? I’ll post the answers later, but in the meantime…

… the answer is here. (Answer September 26, 2012: They are photographing Manhattanhenge.)

… the answer is here. (Answer September 26, 2012: That’s Johna and a couple of kayaking friends, struggling back into their drysuits after a restaurant meal during an unplanned, comical visit to Red Hook, Brooklyn.)

… the answer is here. (Answer September 26, 2012: It’s the spinach-eating contest during the Great North River Tugboat Race & Competition.)

… and the answer is here. (Answer September 26, 2012: It’s the scary-looking ladies of the organizing committee at our local Halloween block party.)

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary, Take Two

Posted on September 22, 2012 by | 106 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Solitary. I’ve already posted one response; here’s another.

Solitary figures on a beach, at sunrise and at sunset…

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary

Posted on September 22, 2012 by | 66 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Solitary.

And here‘s a second response to this week’s challenge.

Continue reading →

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Travel Theme: White

Posted on September 21, 2012 by | 36 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa‘s Travel-Themed Photo Challenge this week is White, to mark today’s International Day of Peace.

I don’t have any photos of white doves (or peacocks), but this seems very appropriate:

More photos are here.

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Sunday Post: Autumn, Take Two

Posted on September 16, 2012 by | 77 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

This is a second post in response to Jakesprinter‘s Sunday Post theme of Autumn (the first post was here).

Fall is just starting here in New York City—but it’s unmistakably on its way. Here are some of the colors we can look forward to in a month or so…

Photos taken around New York City’s Central Park Reservoir in Fall 2011. More photos are here and here.

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Sunday Post: Autumn

Posted on September 16, 2012 by | 16 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

For the last few days, Fall has been in the air here in New York City. The days are still warm and sunny, but crisp rather than humid, with those deep blue skies of fall. The nights are now almost chilly. And today in Central Park, I noticed for the first time some yellow and brown in the green mass of trees, and the first few fallen dry leaves scattered along the paths…

So Jakesprinter‘s Sunday Post theme of Autumn comes perfectly timed. I have many brilliantly colorful fall foliage pictures, and I’ll post a few of them, but I’ve always liked especially this more modest photo. I took it many, many years ago, in the last millenium, still in the age of film…

A second Autumn post is here.

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Travel Theme: Texture, Take Two

Posted on September 14, 2012 by | 65 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa‘s Travel-Themed Photo Challenge this week is Texture. I’ve already posted one response, but here’s another.

A snowy day in New York City’s Central Park…

More photos are here.

Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life

Posted on September 14, 2012 by | 34 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Everyday Life.

New York City, of course.

Meanwhile, the kids are a bit less serious about their fun…

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Travel Theme: Texture

Posted on September 14, 2012 by | 27 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa‘s Travel-Themed Photo Challenge for this week is Texture.

No color… just texture!

Belize, 2010.

A second take on “Texture” is here.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Near and Far, Take Two

Posted on September 9, 2012 by | 48 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Near and Far.

I’ve already posted one response to this challenge—three of my annual photos of a round-Manhattan swimmer next to my kayak with the Empire State Building in the distance.

A similar photo-op occurs in our kayaking trips through New York Harbor. We often paddle from Manhattan down to the Lower Bay for the day. As we return in the evening, we pass through the Verrazano Narrows and turn the corner into the Upper Bay. And there suddenly, across the entire Upper Bay, we see the ramparts of Manhattan in the evening sun. They are imposing, but still far, far away…

Swimmers, too, get to see that sight sometimes…

For more on “Paddling to Manhattan Island”, see here; for more on swimming there, see here and here.

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